Category: Pokémon

Rating: M

Couples: X

Warnings: AU, Disturbing Imagery,

Chapter: 4

Copyright: Characters & places © By Game Freak, Plot & OC´s © by me

Author's Note: Multi Chapter Interlude between Sword's Fate and its' upcoming Sequel. Can be read alone.

"Italics" is indicative of Telepathy.

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On the way to the Pokémon League, Diantha received a text from Kathi that Olympia's Pokémon had been put in the care of Wulfric; neither of the Psychic's assistants felt confident in being able to control the Gym Leader's no-doubt very upset team for however long their trainer would be in the coma.

Shortly after that, Cynthia send her a text as well, informing her that she had managed to gather most Champions for a conference call in an hour.

The actress limbed rather awkwardly to the office that held the necessary equipment for that, though she was wondering if she should make a quick stop for some painkillers.

"They should be getting on in a bit." The Sinnoh Champion had already started the call, greeting her colleague with a frown hidden beneath her golden hair. "Hoenn might take a bit longer since Steven needs to get in contact with Wallace first."

"No problem." Diantha dropped down on the chair. "Sorry about making you face them." Time-zones were annoying when things came up that needed all Champions to be together.

"Most were awake, thank goodness." Cynthia pulled a mug of coffee from outside of the screen, taking a drink when one of the other screens activated. "Morning, Lance."

"Not the best moment, Diantha, I have things to attend to, you know." The Indigo Plateau Champion sighed softly. "I wouldn't have come had Cynthia not said that it was very important."

"It is." Diantha nodded lightly, looking up when her screen of Alder turned on. "Hello, Alder."

"You won't believe my day." Alder muttered darkly. "This better be worth the stress, Diantha."

Before she could answer, the screen to her right activated. Unlike the others, there were two people on it, rather than only one. Steven and Wallace had both joined the conference-call. "I guess this is not about the Giant Rock, isn't it?" Hoenn's Champion mused, absentmindedly playing with his cuff.

"No." The white-clad female shook her head. "Something happened with me and Cynthia and I want to know if you have the same problem."

"We're guys, Di." Alder rubbed his face. "Sorry, I barely had any sleep. I am running purely on caffeine right now."

She ignored him, glancing at the other female Champion. The grey eyes had narrowed just a fraction. "Olympia's down in a coma and so is Lucian." She looked at the others. "What of your Great Psychics?"

The shocked faces were enough answer.

"I spend the entire night in the hospital since Grimsley found Caitlin unconscious in her rooms last evening." Alder breathed softly.

"Sabrina's parents came back from a wedding-anniversary weekend-away to find her unconscious on the floor. They are semi-frantic." Lance added. "I am still trying to calm them down."

Almost at once they all turned to the screen showing the Hoenn-representatives. Steven seemed to be looking in horror at the corner of his screen that held his stand-in while he was in Kalos to deal with the Giant Rock-drama.

Wallace had seemingly turned off his microphone and was on the phone, talking frantically with the person on the other side. After a while, he seemed to slump just a fraction, briefly glancing at the camera and raising a thumb before ending the call.

"Well?" Steven demanded just a touch harshly when the microphone came back on.

"They're fine." Wallace assured them. "I had to semi-argue with Rachel – their mother – for a bit before she went to check up on them, but Liza and Tate are fine… I asked them to come to the League until we figure this out."

"That's a small mercy in this." Diantha sighed deeply. "So all adult Great Psychics are down, but the kids were spared." She rubbed her forehead. "For a bit I thought Olympia fell victim to some kind of Team Flare revenge-action for last week, but then Cynthia mentioned Lucian being out too."

"And that's about all we know." Lance muttered. "This is far too widespread for one of our villain teams… they usually don't bother with other regions, thank Arceus."

"Not to mention the risk they took." Steven looked far calmer than just a bit earlier at the news that the twins of Mossdeep were fine. "Isn't Sabrina capable of turning people into dolls – so to speak? Olympia sees the future and can teleport people from across a region, Caitlin had temperament issues since her emotions were spilling willy-nilly – if I remember properly - and Lucian reads to keep his mind from literally flitting across the region… and that is their special powers. Who would dare risk having all those psychic powers aimed at them in self-defence?"

"Well, Caitlin was ambushed. I don't think she had a chance to unleash said powers in self-defence." Alder ran a hand through his hair. "Until he couldn't wake her up, Grimsley thought she was merely sleeping."

"Sabrina, from what I have gathered, looked like she had merely collapsed at some point." Lance crossed his arms.

"Lucian had just slumped against his bookshelf, book still in hand. I think he just fell over while reading." Cynthia took another drink of her coffee.

"Olympia managed to flee before being overtaken. She's actually beaten up with a broken arm." Diantha leaned back lightly. "Perhaps she did get a vision of her attackers; despite that, her Pokémon didn't notice a thing and she got a good bit through her house."

"So those anonymous attackers are actually capable of blocking psychic powers. There's no way they should only fail with the Great Psychic who can see visions of the future without extensive rituals." Wallace pointed out. "The other three should still have sensed them at some point, not completely miss… whatever happened to them."

"I think we need to meet up, pronto." Lance stated. "We also need to look at something for protection, both for the twins as well as the others."

"My father's company has almost finished development on stasis-modules." Steven mused softly. "Perhaps we can meet in Hoenn to look at those for your downed Psychics and then figure out what to do with this new threat."